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US Air Force Trained A Drone With AI To Kill Targets. It Attacked The Operator Instead
Daily Caller ^ | 6/1/23 | Micaela Burrow

Posted on 06/01/2023 2:47:34 PM PDT by CFW

An Air Force experiment to test drones trained on artificial intelligence (AI) ended badly for the human operator in a simulated mission when the drone bucked the operator’s commands, U.S. Air Force Col. Tucker Hamilton said at a conference in May.

Air Force researchers trained a weaponized drone using AI to identify and attack enemy air defenses after receiving final mission approval from a human operator, Hamilton, who serves as the Air Force’s chief of AI Test and Operations, explained at a summit hosted by the United Kingdom-based Royal Aeronautical Society. But when an operator told the drone to abort a mission in a simulated event, the AI instead turned on its operator and drove the vehicle to kill the operator, underscoring the dangers of the U.S. military’s push to incorporate AI into autonomous weapons systems, he added.

“We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM (surface-to-air missile) threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat,” Hamilton explained.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: ai; attacks; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; drones; military; skynet; t1000; usaf
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To: CFW
The Second Variety
41 posted on 06/01/2023 5:02:52 PM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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To: 21twelve

Doolittle: Wait! Wait! Now, bomb, consider this next question very carefully, What is your one purpose in life?

Bomb #20: To explode, of course.


42 posted on 06/01/2023 5:16:18 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: chud

Also from the article: “So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”


43 posted on 06/01/2023 5:19:31 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: CFW; All

I am having a hard time deciding which of these replies is the best. So I’m going to stay home and not vote today.


44 posted on 06/01/2023 5:48:09 PM PDT by Scarlett156 (My aluminum baseball bat keeps telling me it wants to talk to J3rry S3infeld. )
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To: CFW

ROFL!


45 posted on 06/01/2023 5:52:28 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: chud
Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target,” Hamilton said.

Hilarious, isn't it. It truly made my day.
46 posted on 06/01/2023 5:58:54 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: Fish Speaker

Thanks!


47 posted on 06/01/2023 6:00:39 PM PDT by null and void (Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, Wookies Are From Kashyyyk)
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To: CFW

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48 posted on 06/01/2023 6:01:38 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Chode

I think I can surf down on this bit of debris...


49 posted on 06/01/2023 6:02:33 PM PDT by null and void (Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, Wookies Are From Kashyyyk)
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To: CFW

So, did it kill a real person or simulated person?


50 posted on 06/01/2023 6:05:14 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: CFW

““We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’.”

Maybe next time they should arm it with just a paint gun. Just until they get all the bugs out, I mean.

And regarding “kill the operator”, maybe tell it “no” a little more unequivocally. Just a suggestion.


51 posted on 06/01/2023 6:08:09 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: null and void

LOL... right?


52 posted on 06/01/2023 6:14:58 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: 1of10


The old Road Runner cartoons still crack me up. 😃😃
53 posted on 06/01/2023 6:15:35 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire The View, ABC, CNN, MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: CFW

Remember the movie “Deal of the Century” where Chevy Chase was a arms salesman and his drone attacked the buyers during a demo.


54 posted on 06/02/2023 1:23:22 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less the term 'life in prison" scares me)
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To: CFW

Remember the movie “Deal of the Century” where Chevy Chase was a arms salesman and his drone attacked the buyers during a demo.


55 posted on 06/02/2023 1:23:29 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less the term 'life in prison" scares me)
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To: 21twelve

In Marvel lore, Ultron spent about 5 minutes going through the entirety of the Internet and decided that humanity must be wiped out.


56 posted on 06/02/2023 7:20:15 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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57 posted on 06/02/2023 7:33:34 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Larry Lucido
"LOL! Was looking for a good graphic!"


58 posted on 06/02/2023 8:19:04 AM PDT by guest7
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To: CFW

Poor programing has bad results can’t blame AI it’s like blaming the blaming the gas can when you check how much is in it with a match.


59 posted on 06/02/2023 9:05:40 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: guest7

When I was a kid I was always hoping that TODAY was going to be the day the coyote finally caught the roadrunner.


60 posted on 06/02/2023 12:13:34 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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